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Liberalism and progressivism within Islam - Quiz
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  • 1. Which writer was a Nigerian journalist born in 1952?
A) Shahla Sherkat
B) Bilkisu Yusuf
C) Fatema Mernissi
D) Zainab Salbi
  • 2. Who is a British writer born in 1974?
A) Sadiq Khan
B) Taimur Rahman
C) Mustafa Akyol
D) Ed Husain
  • 3. Which Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist lived from 1940 to 2015?
A) Bilkisu Yusuf
B) Shamima Shaikh
C) Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
D) Fatema Mernissi
  • 4. Which of these activists co-founded 'Muslims for Progressive Values'?
A) Manal al-Sharif
B) Malala Yousafzai
C) Linda Sarsour
D) Ani Zonneveld
  • 5. Who served as the Governor of Punjab, Pakistan between 2008 and 2011?
A) Taimur Rahman
B) Salman Taseer
C) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
D) Sadiq Khan
  • 6. Which activist is known as a co-founder of 'Sisters in Islam'?
A) Kadra Yusuf
B) Nassima al-Sadah
C) Samina Ali
D) Zainah Anwar
  • 7. Which Turkish writer and journalist was born in 1972?
A) Ed Husain
B) Shahla Sherkat
C) Mustafa Akyol
D) Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
  • 8. Who was the Pakistani provincial minister for social welfare in Punjab from 2006 to 2007?
A) Zille Huma Usman
B) Samar Badawi
C) Malala Yousafzai
D) Manal al-Sharif
  • 9. Which Canadian writer and educator was born in 1968?
A) Samina Ali
B) Fatema Mernissi
C) Irshad Manji
D) Zainab Salbi
  • 10. Which of the following is listed as a term related to the topic?
A) Sectarian violence
B) Post-Islamism
C) Multiculturalism
D) Mu'tazilism
  • 11. Who is the Mayor of London?
A) Sadiq Khan
B) Zohran Mamdani
C) Ilhan Omar
D) Rashida Tlaib
  • 12. Which Saudi activist was born in 1981?
A) Nassima al-Sadah
B) Zainab Salbi
C) Samar Badawi
D) Manal al-Sharif
  • 13. Who is the Pakistani socialist activist born in 1975?
A) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
B) Salman Taseer
C) Sadiq Khan
D) Taimur Rahman
  • 14. Which South African feminist journalist and activist lived from 1960 to 1998?
A) Fatema Mernissi
B) Shahla Sherkat
C) Bilkisu Yusuf
D) Shamima Shaikh
  • 15. Which Iranian feminist author and activist was born in 1956?
A) Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
B) Shahla Sherkat
C) Zainah Anwar
D) Nassima al-Sadah
  • 16. According to Khaled Abou El Fadl, what part of the body does the Quran require women to cover?
A) The face
B) The bosoms
C) The entire body
D) The hair
  • 17. What does Khaled Abou El Fadl say about wearing a hijab if it causes a woman risk or undue attention?
A) It should be replaced with a veil
B) It is a sign of piety to endure it
C) It is an error to continue wearing it
D) It is mandatory regardless of the consequences
  • 18. What is Sheikh Mustapha Mohamed Rashed's view on the hijab?
A) It is a fundamental pillar of Islam
B) It is optional only for older women
C) It is only required during prayer
D) It is not a religious duty
  • 19. According to Riffat Hassan, what does the term 'qawwamun' refer to?
A) Men's inherent superiority over women
B) Men's role as breadwinners
C) The spiritual leadership of men
D) The authority of husbands over wives
  • 20. How does Riffat Hassan interpret 'nushuz' in the context of the Quran?
A) Disobedience to a husband's commands
B) A woman's lack of modesty
C) Marital infidelity
D) A mass rebellion of women against their role as child-bearers
  • 21. According to Asma Barlas, what is the 'worst' interpretation of the word 'wa-dribuhunna'?
A) To ignore
B) To separate
C) To beat
D) To set an example
  • 22. What does Amina Wadud suggest 'nushuz' refers to?
A) Sexual sin
B) Disharmony in the relationship
C) Domestic disobedience
D) Extramarital affairs
  • 23. In her translation 'The Sublime Quran', what does Laleh Bakhtiar translate 'wa-dribuhunna' as?
A) To go away from or to leave
B) To strike lightly
C) To discipline gently
D) To advise firmly
  • 24. What reasoning does Laleh Bakhtiar use to support her interpretation of 'wa-dribuhunna'?
A) Historical records of early Islamic court rulings
B) Direct instructions from her mentors
C) Prophetic biographies claiming Muhammad never beat his wives
D) The absence of the word in other holy books
  • 25. What methodology does Laury Silvers use to interpret Quranic ambiguity?
A) The methodology of Ibn Arabi
B) Strict literalism
C) Exclusively historical context
D) Modern secular psychology
  • 26. Why does Laury Silvers believe the Quran must be ambiguous?
A) To hide secrets from non-believers
B) Because the original text was lost
C) To reflect the complexity of the Arabic language
D) To allow room for human responsibility
  • 27. According to Laury Silvers, why did God reveal the possibility of beating in the Quran?
A) To endorse it as a standard practice
B) To restrain existing violence
C) To provide a punishment for any sin
D) To allow men to control their households
  • 28. How does Khaled Abou El Fadl reinterpret 'nushuz' in verse 4:34?
A) General marital disharmony
B) A grave sexual sin proven by evidence
C) A woman's arrogance
D) Lack of financial support
  • 29. According to Fatema Mernissi, what does Quran 33:35 signify?
A) The necessity of the hijab
B) The superiority of men in prayer
C) Gender equality within Islam
D) The rules for marital inheritance
  • 30. How does Edip Yüksel translate the term 'qawwamun'?
A) Masters
B) Leaders
C) Supporters
D) Guardians
  • 31. According to Edip Yüksel, what does 'nushuz' refer to?
A) Refusal to perform chores
B) Disobedience to a husband
C) Extramarital affair or marital disloyalty
D) General disharmony
  • 32. What does Edip Yüksel argue regarding the term 'idribuhunna'?
A) It means beating
B) It means ignoring the spouse
C) It means separation
D) It means public shaming
  • 33. Which verse does Edip Yüksel cite to argue that marriage should be tranquil, contradicting the idea of beating?
A) 30:21
B) 33:35
C) 4:34
D) 2:231
  • 34. What is the primary professional field of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd?
A) Medicine
B) Engineering
C) Theology
D) Physics
  • 35. Which ancient school of thought did Abu Zayd identify as an intellectual heir to?
A) Muʿtazila
B) Ash'ari
C) Hanbali
D) Sufism
  • 36. What did an Egyptian Sharia court declare Abu Zayd in 1995?
A) Scholar emeritus
B) Caliph
C) Saint
D) Apostate
  • 37. What term does Abu Zayd use for the 'culture of the text' that he argues the Quran created?
A) Sharia al-awwal
B) Tafsir al-ummah
C) Hadarat al-nass
D) Kitab al-kalam
  • 38. What did Abu Zayd emphasize over 'naql' (narrated traditions) when interpreting the Quran?
A) Ijma (consensus)
B) Hadith (reports)
C) Qiyas (analogy)
D) Aql (intellect)
  • 39. Which scholar identified the 'three key themes' in Abu Zayd's work?
A) Tariq Ramadan
B) Navid Kermani
C) Edward Said
D) Muhammad Abduh
  • 40. What historical context did Abu Zayd argue the Quran must be read within?
A) Modern Western democratic standards
B) Seventh-century Arab language and culture
C) Pre-Islamic Persian mythology
D) The geopolitical landscape of the twentieth century
  • 41. What outcome did Abu Zayd hope his critical approach would foster for Muslims?
A) Building a bridge between tradition and the modern world
B) The implementation of strict historical censorship
C) The complete abandonment of Islamic tradition
D) The creation of a new religion
  • 42. What is the process of re-interpreting traditional Islamic sacred scriptures called?
A) Ijtihad
B) Sunnah
C) Ummah
D) Tawhid
  • 43. What principle do progressive Muslims use as an organizing principle for human society?
A) Sharia
B) The Caliphate
C) Hellenism
D) Tawhid
  • 44. From which movement did Liberal Islam originally emerge?
A) 18th–19th century Islamic revivalist movement
B) Modern secularism
C) Ancient Greek philosophy
D) The early 20th-century colonial movement
  • 45. What view do liberal Muslims hold regarding theocracy?
A) They are indifferent to theocracy
B) They promote theocracy
C) They require theocracy for salvation
D) They oppose theocracy
  • 46. What is the nickname often given to Ibn Rushd?
A) The Theologian
B) The Commentator
C) The Philosopher
D) The Scientist
  • 47. Ibn Rushd's major work 'The Incoherence of the Incoherence' was written to defend philosophy against which author?
A) Averroes
B) Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
C) Aristotle
D) al-Ghazali
  • 48. What is the Latinized name for Ibn Rushd?
A) Al-Farabi
B) Averroes
C) Avicenna
D) Averroism
  • 49. What philosophical movement was based on Ibn Rushd's work in the 13th century?
A) Ash'arism
B) Rationalism
C) Averroism
D) Secularism
  • 50. Which of these is one of Ibn Rushd's notable works mentioned in the text?
A) The Republic
B) Critique de la Raison Arabe
C) Kitab al-Kashf
D) The Incoherence of the Philosophers
  • 51. Who was a notable proponent of the revival of Averroist thought in the late 20th century?
A) Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
B) Ibn Rushd
C) Al-Ghazali
D) Aristotle
  • 52. The 'Fasl al-Maqal' is also known by what English title?
A) The Book of Discovery
B) The Incoherence of the Incoherence
C) Critique of Arab Reason
D) Decisive Treatise
  • 53. Which intellectual is considered one of the early proponents of Islamic Modernism?
A) Mehmet Ali
B) Muhammad Abduh
C) A Roman Caesar
D) Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
  • 54. In what year did Rifa'a al-Tahtawi return from his mission in Paris?
A) 1860
B) 1831
C) 1905
D) 1826
  • 55. What position did al-Tahtawi hold at the School of Languages?
A) Director
B) Student
C) Religious scholar
D) Translator of military manuals
  • 56. Approximately how many foreign works did al-Tahtawi supervise the translation of into Arabic?
A) Over 2,000
B) Exactly 1,800
C) Over 500
D) Under 1,000
  • 57. What civilization did al-Tahtawi use as an example of what could happen to Islamic civilizations if they failed to stay united?
A) Persian
B) Greek
C) Roman
D) French
  • 58. What did Muhammad Abduh believe man was given in order to be guided by knowledge?
A) Tradition
B) Ancient texts
C) A bridle
D) Intelligence
  • 59. What was the name of the Egyptian renaissance movement that flourished between 1860 and 1940?
A) The Enlightenment
B) Islamic Modernism
C) Nahda
D) The Extraction of Gold
  • 60. What did Muhammad Abduh preach regarding Sunnis and Shias?
A) Strict separation
B) The superiority of one over the other
C) Harmony
D) Conflict resolution through war
  • 61. What was the primary goal of the school where al-Tahtawi worked as director?
A) Training soldiers for the army
B) Translating European books into Arabic
C) Preserving ancient Egyptian language
D) Religious teaching for clerics
  • 62. Which revolution was significantly impacted by the movement known as Socialist Shi'ism?
A) The Islamic Golden Age
B) The 1953 Iranian Coup
C) The Arab Spring
D) The 1979 Iranian Revolution
  • 63. Who was the leader of the Islamist revolution that borrowed socialist Shia ideas?
A) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
B) Shah Mohammad Reza Shah
C) Ruhollah Musavi
D) Ali Shariati
  • 64. What kind of government did the young secular-educated leftists seek to overthrow in the 1970s?
A) A pro-American authoritarian monarchy
B) A socialist democracy
C) A communist republic
D) A liberal caliphate
  • 65. What was Ali Shariati's primary professional background?
A) Politician
B) Sociologist
C) Religious scholar
D) Economist
  • 66. Which of these thinkers influenced Ali Shariati during his studies in Paris?
A) Imam Khomeini
B) Hadi Milani
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Karl Marx
  • 67. Which Ayatollah issued a fatwa prohibiting the reading of Shariati's books in the 1970s?
A) Moussa Sadr
B) Ali Khamenei
C) Ayatollah Khomeini
D) Hadi Milani
  • 68. What type of government did Shariati advocate for, rejecting Western liberal democracy?
A) Commitment Democracy
B) Absolute Monarchy
C) Communism
D) Western-style Republic
  • 69. Which demographic group was phenomenally popular with Shariati's ideology?
A) Industrial business owners
B) Traditional clergy
C) Iranian peasants
D) Post-secondary students
  • 70. Which organization was strongly influenced by Shariati's Islamic Marxist ideas?
A) The Muslim Brotherhood
B) People's Mujahideen
C) The Savak
D) The Communist Party of Iran
  • 71. Which of these terms did Ayatollah Khomeini incorporate into his public declarations from Shariati's influences?
A) Scientific materialism
B) Western imperialist sovereignty
C) The mostazafin will inherit the earth
D) Liberal democratic capitalism
  • 72. How long did Mahmoud Taleghani serve in prison in total?
A) Twenty years
B) Five years
C) Two years
D) A dozen years
  • 73. Where did Khomeini summon Taleghani following the conflict over his sons' arrests?
A) Qom
B) Shiraz
C) Tehran
D) Isfahan
  • 74. Ijtihad is contrasted with which concept?
A) Usul al-fiqh
B) Ijma
C) Taqlid
D) Mujtahid
  • 75. What is an Islamic scholar qualified to perform ijtihad called?
A) Taqlid
B) Fatwa
C) Usul
D) Mujtahid
  • 76. Who defined Islamic feminism as a discourse and practice within an Islamic paradigm in 2002?
A) Meena Keshwar Kamal
B) Zainah Anwar
C) Margot Badran
D) Amina Wadud
  • 77. Why is 'Sisters in Islam' challenging the fatwa issued by MAIS?
A) Because they seek to abandon the Quran
B) Because they oppose the concept of ijtihad
C) On constitutional grounds
D) Because they want to join secular feminism
  • 78. When was the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) launched?
A) January 2013.
B) October 2001.
C) November 2012.
D) May 2009.
  • 79. Who founded the Marhaba support group for queer Muslims in Melbourne?
A) El-Farouk Khaki.
B) Faisal Alam.
C) Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed.
D) Nur Wahrsage.
  • 80. Who set up a prayer room in Paris described as the first gay-friendly mosque in Europe?
A) Faisal Alam.
B) Troy Jackson.
C) Parvez Sharma.
D) Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed.
  • 81. Who produced the documentary films 'A Jihad for Love' and 'A Sinner in Mecca'?
A) Laury Silvers.
B) El-Farouk Khaki.
C) Parvez Sharma.
D) Imam Daayiee Abdullah.
  • 82. What organization was founded in 1993 by El-Farouk Khaki in Canada?
A) The Safra Project.
B) MASGD.
C) Marhaba.
D) Salaam.
  • 83. Which scholar argued for a new interpretation of the Lot narrative?
A) Junaid Jahangir
B) Mustafa Khattab
C) Mobeen Vaid
D) Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
  • 84. According to Kugle, what is 'genetic inheritance' in the Quran referred to as?
A) The work of the devil
B) A test of character
C) A moral failing
D) One's physical stamp
  • 85. Who published a critique of Kugle's work in 2016?
A) Mobeen Vaid
B) Hussein Abdullatif
C) Sahih International
D) Junaid Jahangir
  • 86. What does Kugle argue that the Quran holds a positive assessment of?
A) Diversity
B) Tradition
C) Strict legalism
D) Asceticism
  • 87. What is the term for the new approach to Quranic exegesis mentioned in the text?
A) Tafsir
B) Hadith
C) Fiqh
D) Sharia
  • 88. Which of these historical figures is listed as a founder of Islamic modernism?
A) Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
B) Osman I
C) Ibn Khaldun
D) Saladin
  • 89. What term did early Islamic Modernists use to refer to their movement of renovation?
A) Wahhabism
B) Modernity
C) Salafiyya
D) Jihadism
  • 90. Which of the following describes how current Salafism differs from the early 'salafiyya' movement?
A) Current Salafism is identical to early modernism
B) Current Salafism is exclusively a secular movement
C) Current Salafism generally signifies ideologies like Wahhabism
D) Current Salafism rejects all Islamic tradition
  • 91. What is the primary source of faith for Quranists?
A) The Sunnah
B) The Hadith
C) The Quran only
D) Clerical interpretations
  • 92. How does Saeed Nasheed describe the origin of the Quran?
A) An ancient historical forgery
B) Direct literal speech of God
C) Entirely written by later followers
D) Divinely inspired but human-authored
  • 93. When did the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) emerge?
A) The 1960s
B) The 1980s
C) The 1950s
D) The 1920s
  • 94. In what year was Muslims for Progressive Values founded?
A) 1999
B) 2007
C) 1960
D) 2013
  • 95. What international body recognized MPV as an NGO in 2013?
A) The World Bank
B) The United Nations
C) The Islamic Society of North America
D) The European Union
  • 96. Who is listed in the text as an advocate for the idea that the Quran is human-authored?
A) Ayatollah Khomeini
B) Abdul Karim Soroush
C) Ani Zonneveld
D) Pamela K. Taylor
  • 97. Who spearheaded Tolu-e-Islam after its initiation?
A) Nasr Abu Zayd
B) Muhammad Iqbal
C) Shabir Ally
D) Ghulam Ahmed Pervez
  • 98. Who is a co-founder of Sisters in Islam?
A) Amina Wadud
B) Laleh Bakhtiar
C) Asma Barlas
D) Ziba Mir-Hosseini
  • 99. Who served as the Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1958 to 1963?
A) Fazlur Rahman Malik
B) Muhammad Asad
C) Nasr Abu Zayd
D) Mahmud Shaltut
  • 100. Which scholar is noted as a Marxist historian?
A) Mohsen Kadivar
B) Adnan Ibrahim
C) Irfan Habib
D) Khaled Abou El Fadl
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